Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, budgets, information about department history and faculty, research reports, photographs, drawings, and collected publications related to the work of the state entomologist.The correspondence includes letters sent or received by Lawrence Bruner, Myron Swenk, O.S. Bare, and H. Douglas Tate. Many letters relate to pests and insects affecting crops and trees within the state. Bruner, Swenk, Bare, and...

Content Description The Ephraim Marks and David Rice collection is composed of personal material about this white, gay, Omaha couple. The collection includes a scrapbook kept by David Rice showcasing some of his work as an interior designer in the 20th century in Omaha along with biographical information about Ephraim Marks and David Rice from the time around Rice’s death. A copy of an oral history interview David Rice did with the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society is also available. Also included are photos...

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The Ervin Krause Papers are primarily comprised of notebooks, manuscripts, and typescripts created by Ervin Krause and include short stories, novels, and nonfiction. Some of Krause’s stories exist only in handwritten form in notebooks. A small amount of correspondence, both personal and professional, is also found in the collection.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence and photographic materials. The materials in the photograph series relate to Barbour's research in paleontology and geology, his work as director of the State Museum, his civic involvement in Lincoln, Nebraska, and his personal life. The images of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils are primarily from Nebraska. They include scenes of excavations, fossil preparation, and museum displays in addition to photographs illustrating fossils from various...

Content Description The papers of Erwin R. and Melba Dee (nee Code) Eastwood document the life of this Agra, Oklahoma, couple during their dating or courtship and later marriage during World War II through their letters. The collection also includes a small number of unidentified photographs. At the end of the war, the letters continue as Erwin Eastwood worked away from the Eastwood's Oklahoma home. The letters in the collection are addressed to Melba Dee from her boyfriend and husband Erwin Eastwood, a Seabee...

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Records of Eta Sigma Gamma Alpha Omega Chapter at the University of Nebraska at Omaha include photographs, brochures, and scrapbooks from circa 1986 to 2004. Eta Sigma Gamma was a health education honorary society.

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This collection contains the Faculty minutes, records and reports from its beginning as the Industrial College to the Institute on Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) from 1884-1964.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials relating to faculty of the Physical Education for Women department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Teachers College.  Included are correspondence, awards, articles and speeches, programs, notes, newspaper clippings, biographies, bibliographies, and photographs.  There are eight folders of papers and photographs related to Mabel Lee, and one folder each for the remaining faculty represented in the collection.  Staff handbooks and a guide for the...

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Includes two photographs of the Fairmont Creamery. In the first photo, a large group of workers stand in front of the Fairmont Creamery Company buildings and trucks in Crete, Nebraska. In the second photo, several workers dressed in uniform stand in front of a brick wall of the creamery building. The Leschinsky Studio took the photos and George Monroe is identified as the 4th person from left in the front row.

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The collection includes an album of about 100 photo negatives by E.A. Frerich's of the class of 1921 showing Farm House members, agricultural facilities, and events such as the Farmer's Fair and picnics during 1920-1921.  Also included are Frerich's scrapbook and chapter history and photographs of later chapter members.

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The records include the newsletters "Farm Op. Spotlight" from 1931 to 1939, photographs from the College of Agriculture depicting Norman Heitshusen's short course in 1936 (photographs with the original caption "Pete" with an arrow are of Norman Heitshusen), and a newspaper article about Norman Heitshusen graduating as a Farm Operator after completing the University short course study.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of research and audio visual material compiled by Pat Ferrero and Julie Silber for their film, Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth Century Women and Quilts. Included in the collection is correspondence with quilt historians, along with research articles sent to Ferrero and Silber. The research files are primarily articles pertaining to a wide range of topics concerning nineteenth century women, social history, and quilting,...

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The records consist of some correspondence, historical materials, minutes of meetings, treasurer reports, calendars, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The historical materials contain copies of constitutions and bylaws as well as lists of board members and membership applications.

Scope and Contents The football records include photographs, records, memoirs, publications, audio, film, and video recordings. Scrapbooks that document the history and development of the football program are also included. The bulk of the photographs are of the early teams and players spanning the 1890s through the 1950s. Among the publications are gameday programs dating back to 1907, media guides dating back to 1951, and others such as Huskers Illustrated. Also included in the football records are the Bob...

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The collection includes university, departmental and general correspondence; subject files; speeches and articles by Frank A. Lundy; and biographical information, as well as a few photographs and newspaper clippings.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the newspaper clippings and photographs related to Frank Sadílek. It also contains speeches by Charles Sadílek.Includes postcards published by the Czech Heritage Foundation of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a record of funeral orations of Frank J. Sadílek from 1907 to 1933 that includes articles, a letter of condolence to Mrs. Sadílek, and photographs of Sadílek with the monument erected to honor Czech pioneers in Saline County. Aldditional materials includes...

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The collection includes field notes; journals; short stories; correspondence; articles; research and subject files; family diaries; scrapbooks and clippings; and photographs.

Scope and Contents The Keim, Agronomy Papers consists of correspondence, biographical materials, publications, photographs, and audiovisual materials from Keim’s travels to Europe and the International Grasslands Congress in 1937. In 1948, Keim studied agriculture in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. In 1945-1946, Keim observed post-war farmland in France, Germany, and the Netherlands and documented his travels in a scrapbook. Additional materials relate to Keim’s retirement, the dedication of Keim Hall, and...

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The collection includes Fred Morrow Fling's correspondence from 1894-1922, materials related to his research on the French Revolution, his manuscript about Mirabeau, scrapbooks, and lecture notes.

Scope and Contents The Fred Moyer Collection includes game programs (1954-1957), tickets (Tangerine Bowl, 1969 season), photographs, news clippings, pages from a scrapbook, and other material documenting the football team at the University of Omaha predominantly from 1954 to 1957 including the undefeated 1954 team (1955 Tangerine Bowl champions). The collection also includes one photo of the OU baseball team from the 1957-1958 season when Moyer and other students joined the team after several students were...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of nine boxes of working notebooks, lecture notes, slide lists, illustrations, and bibliography for the classes Spaulding taught while at the University of Nebraska.  Subjects include: art history from ancient Mesopotamian, Minoan, and Mycenean through Italian and northern Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects; interior design styles and contemporary furniture and design; illustrations from every period of art history; and notes on rendering, perspective,...

Scope and Contents The Luebke papers pertain to his career as a teacher, Nebraska historian, and published author. The collection covers the period from 1957 to 1994, with the bulk of the documents relating to his time at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, from 1968 to 1994. The papers consist of a wide variety of correspondence, various lectures, along with seminar and presentation materials. Research for articles, essays, and books includes extensive documentation for his published book, Nebraska: An...

Scope and Contents All of the correspondence is filed chronologically, with letters that Karlson received with those he sent to his family, along with those occasionally sent by friends. The majority of the letters are addressed to “Dear Mother and Lottie,” Karlson’s mother and sister, Charlotte, living in Gothenburg, Nebraska. There are also letters to his sister “Elvina” living in Los Angeles, California, and another sister or friend named “Ruth.” About 3 letters from Karlson’s mother are written in...

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Contains news clippings, rush programs, and photographs of the chapter house, members, and events of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.

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The collection consists of two photographic prints showing a tornado that touched down near Elmwood, Nebraska, on April 6, 1919, about 6:45 p.m. The photographs were taken at a distance of 25 miles by G. B. Pickwell.